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Publishing

Android

Running ns build android will create an Android project under platforms/android. This project can be opened in Android Studio and published in the Play Store like any other Android app.

You can also find more information on building a signed release .apk here.

iOS

Running ns prepare ios --release will generate an Xcode project at /platforms/ios/kiwiirc-app.xcworkspace. You can open this project on Xcode and publish it like any other iOS app.

You can find more information on the NativeScript publishing guide for iOS.

Publishing with fastlane

You can publish the app to the App Store (iOS) and Google Play (Android) with fastlane. For more options and/or troubleshooting, see this more complete guide.

Install fastlane

(macOS only) Make sure you have the latest version of the Xcode command line tools installed:

xcode-select --install

Install fastlane using

[sudo] gem install fastlane -NV

or alternatively using brew cask install fastlane.

More info on setting up the environment here.

.env

Create dotenv:

cd kiwiirc-app
cp .env.default.example .env.default

Update the variables inside .env.default.

iOS (macOS only)

Set up match

fastlane match makes certificate and provision profile management much easier. More on match here. The basic steps are:

  1. fastlane match init

  2. Update the variables GIT_URL, APP_IDENTIFIER, USERNAME, and MATCH_PASSWORD in .env.default accordingly.

  3. Set the apple developer username and password to the variables FASTLANE_USER and
    FASTLANE_PASSWORD. It is recommended to create a new account for this purpose, without 2FA.

  4. Get the required certificates with fastlane match:

cd kiwiirc-app
fastlane ios certificates

Send to testflight

fastlane ios ship_testflight

Android

Set up a Google Developers Service Account

See here how to do that. Copy the json data to the PLAYSTORE_JSON_KEY_DATA variable in .env.default

Get the required keys and keystore

  1. See here how to generate a keystore.

  2. Copy the keystore file to fastlane/keys/mobile.keystore.

  3. In .env.default, set the KEYSTORE_PASSWORD, KEYSTORE_ALIAS, and KEYSTORE_ALIAS_PASSWORD used to generate the keystore.

Add to Google Play alpha track (internal team)

fastlane android alpha

Add to Google Play beta track

fastlane android ship_playstore

The workflow

  1. Increment the version in package.json.

    Increment:

    • version: the app version number. If you change this, the app will go through the review process and may take a couple of days to update.
    • versionNumber: If you only update this, the new bundle will be approved immediately.

  2. Run the fastlane commands:

    fastlane ios beta
fastlane android beta